Re: Design principles and ethics

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 19:57 +0200, Tom Bachmann wrote:
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> Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > I wasn't replying to "what about
> > /bin/passwd?", but to "what about setuid programs?", which seemed to be what
> > he meant.
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> OK. Are there any setuid binaries we want? To my view, setuid is just a
> unix invention to circumvent the very coarse grained access control.

In the absence of setiud, and assuming that parents get to inspect their
children, how is /sbin/passwd protected?

shap